Shaun of the Dead

Time to review a film that started off the greatest British comedy trio of modern time: Simon Pegg, Nick Frost and Edgar Wright. The story begins in The Winchester; the local pub with Shaun (Pegg) with his girlfriend Liz (Kate Ashfield)and her friends David (Dylan Moran) and Dianne (Lucy Davis) while Shaun's mate Ed (Frost) works at the slot machine. Liz tries to get Shaun to put his back into the relationship, Shaun seems anxious. The next morning when Shaun leaves for work, he asks Ed to take down any messages and just as Shaun leaves, Liz rings to say to book their dinner date 1 hour earlier, at work Shaun is reminded that he has to visit his mum soon so he buys flowers for her. After Liz leaves him, Shaun goes out with Ed and gets hammered, he returns home and listen to electro, much to the annoyance of their house mate Pete (Peter Serafinowicz) who tells them tthat he got bitten. The next morning there is complete carnage which Shaun is oblivious to, they see a zombie in the garden that after throwing many vinyl disks at, she dies they get their own rudimentary weapons (a cricket bat and a shovel) they head off to Shaun's mum's house when they hear that his step dad's (Bill Nighy) been bitten. They load them all into the car and head to Liz' house but on the way, the step dad turns to a zombie and Shaun kills him, Shaun scales the wall at Liz' house to get her and friends. They cross gardens and practice their zombie imitation techniques and they get to the Winchester, to stop the zombies following them in through the window that David smashed; Shaun distracts the zombies and hours pass and he still hasn't returned. Shaun returns and in the best scene of the entire movie, they beat a zombie to the tune of 'Dont stop me now' and everyone gets turned to a zombie or dies apart from Liz & Shaun but at the end when they're living together, Shaun goes to the shed to play Ps2 with zomnie Ed.

This is a hilarious film with (slightly odd) humour from start to finish, another thing that makes it funny are the cameos by Jessica Stevenson & Matt Lucas, if you've ever seen 'Space'; the comedy is similar. This is proof that British films can make money and can be a lot funnier than their big budget counterparts overseas. The acting is wonderfully bewildering and drunken and a surprising amount of character development for the genre goes into it.

Verdict: 8/10